Sanitary toilet-seat.



No. 888,821. PATENTED MAY 26, 1908. J. A. KLEINE.

SANITARY TOILET SEAT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 27.1901.

.IOIIN A. KLEINE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SANITARY TOILET-SEAT.

Application filed May 27, 1907.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, JonN A. KLEINE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Sanitary Toilet-Seats, of whichthe following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a sanitary covering for watercloset seats to prevent contagion and otherwise protect the user.

More particularly, the object is to provide a package of the sanitarycoverings which can be suitably suspended adjacent to the closet and sothat when a covering is detached from the package it will at the sainetime be torn to remove a stub and adapt the covering for properapplication to the seat.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view showing apackage of the coverings suspended from the side wall of a closetcompartment. Fig. 2 is a detail per spective view of the holder cap.Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the end of the holder. Fig. 4 isa plan view showing the covering ap lied to a closet seat. Fig. 5 showsthe b ank. Fig. 6 shows the blank folded. Fig. 7 is a perspective viewof a package of the coverings. Fig. 8 shows the covering opened andbefore it is torn. Fig. 9 is a sectional view on the line 9-9 of Fig. 4.Fig. 1() is a top plan view showing another means for suspending thepackage. Fig. 11 is a front elevation of Fig. 10.

In ractice I rovide a blank 11 consisting of a s eet 12 ig. 5) of tissueor other suitable paper or material of a size to form a covering for theseat and folded twice upon the lines 13 and 13 as shown in Fig. 6. A number of folded sheets are arranged in a package and then the package iscut in a suitabtle manner to provide each sheet with elongated radialopenings 14 (Fig. 8) on the lines of fold and a central stub section 15.The package of coverings may be fastened together by a sta le 16 passingthrough holes 17 in the stu s (Figs. 7, 8) or by stitching through thestubs.

The package is sus ended in a suitable manner on the side wal 18 of acloset compartment and in the drawings I have shown a sim le suspensionmeans which consists of a hol er made in the form of a housing 19 sha edto receive the stubs 15 and carried by a p ate 20 which is fastened tothe wall.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 26, 1908.

Serial No. 375,787.

The housing has a slot 21. in its lower edge to accommodate the neck 22of the coverings (Fig. 7) and` the package is held in place in thehousing by a cap 255 on the end thereof (Fig. 2). This cap is providedwith a revoluble locking plate 24 on its inner side and a handle 25 onits outer side connected to the locking plate, and the plate hasprojections 26 which enter recesses 26 (Fig. 3) in the inner walls ofthe housing to lock. the cap in place.

In F 10 and 11 I have shown another suspension ineans which comprises arod 27 carried by a wall plate 28' and having a removable screw head 29.The holes 17 (Fig. 8) in the stub section aline when the sheet is foldedand a package of these sheets may be fastened by a staple 16 or by awire running through these holes. .In this adaptation of the inventionthe staple may be removed and the package slipped on to the rod 27 andsecured in place by the screw head 29. If the package is stitched orwired the holes will be left free to receive the rod. I prefer toprovide the plate 28 with guides 30 adjacent to the rod 27 to engage thelower inclined edges 15 of the folded sheet and prevent the pack age andthe individual sheets thereof from swinging laterally on the rod. Theseguides, in the construction shown in Figs. 10 and 11, correspond inpractical effect to the lower sides 19 of the housing shown in Fig. 1.

A sheet can be readily detached from the package for use by pulling downon it sufficient to tear the sheet at the neck 22 and separate it fromthe stub 15 which remains in the housing 19 or on the rod 27. Thesections 31 ofthe sheet between the openings 14, which sections havebeen connected at their inner ends by the stub 15, will be disconnectedwhen the stub is thus removed from the sheet to forin flaps which willswing down within the opening 32 ofthe seat 33, as shown in Figs. 4 and9.

The openings 14 may be variously formed in the sheet, it being onlyessential that they shall be so arranged as to provide a plurality of[laps which are held together at their inner ends by the stub while thesheet is suspended, which stub is separated from the sheet when thelatter is detached from the ackage for use so that the flaps may swingreely down into the opening of the closet seat.

The invention is simple in character and constitutes an inexpensive andeffective sanitary covering' fer eloset seats which will eempletelyprotect the user from direct Contact With. the seat.

What l claim and desire te secure by Let- 5 ters .Patent is:

A sanitary covering ler water eleset seats eenssting elE :L sheet foldedtwiee upon itself and provided with a plurality of mdiel openings teierm liep 10 a stub sections therebetween, and seetlen connecting theinner ende` ef

